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Dell AppSync enables taking application-consistent snapshots. With the use of products such as AppSync, coordination between the array and the application can help to ensure that the data is quiesced, the caches are flushed, and the data is preserved in a known-good state. Application-consistent snapshots offer a higher probability of recovery success.
The SQL Server 2022 T-SQL snapshot backup feature can also be used to add application consistency to PowerStore remote backups. The following section describes this new feature in SQL Server 2022.